Apollo Bay & District Historical Society

The Apollo Bay museum - housed in the buildings from which the undersea cable connected Tasmania with the mainland - is operated by the Apollo Bay and District Historical Society.

Museum Opening

The museum is open on Saturdays and Sundays, public holidays and school holidays from 2pm to 5pm and at other times by prior arrangement for group visits.

It includes displays of relics from some of the shipwrecks and ships that were essentially the primary means of access before the Great Ocean Road and of the life of what was an extremely isolated community.

Books and family histories

The museum has a very extensive range of histories of the people who created and sustained this remote community. Many books about the area, its people, life and the shipwrecks are available for sale, for example:Journal of an Expedition to Cape Otway (1863) The Loch Ard Disaster Shipwrecks Along the Great Ocean RoadBattler By the Bay - memoirs of Albert Stanford

If you have family who have a connection with 'the Bay', and are interested in tracing more background, contact the museum for more information. If you have information about the Bay's past we'd be very grateful if you could share it with us.